The virgin ultimate strength of polyglycolic acid (PGA) suture material exceeded that of silk or gut, but it decreased significantly after residence in oral tissue of surgery patients. Low-cycle tensile fatigue tests showed that breaking strengths of PGA sutures were decreased appreciably by cyclic loading and by degradation in oral tissue.
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